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Erhard Berner has done extensive research on urban poverty and community responses in the Philippines and elsewhere, and published a book and numerous articles on the subject. He has also served as a consultant to UN-Habitat, the World Bank, international and Dutch NGOs, and government institutions in the fields of urban poverty, housing, basic services, and small business promotion. Current research focuses on local effects of globalization, urban governance, microenterprises and poverty alleviation.

G.E. Berner (2003). Community Development and Assistance to the Poorest: Have the Twain finally met? Evaluation of the Community Empowerment, Mobilisation and Development Project in Keraniganj and Kamlapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Consultancy Report for Concern Worldwide). :

G.E. Berner (2007). Of slums and gated communities: Failures of formal and informal land markets in developing cities (Paper presented at the Fourth Urban Research Symposium, World Bank, Washington DC, 14-16 May 2007).

G.E. Berner (2005). Networks, Strategies and Resistance: The Concept of Strategic Groups Revisited (Keynote Address at the conference on 'Strategische Gruppen in der Entwicklungssoziologie' organised by Section Development Sociology of the German Sociological Society, 3-4 November 2005, Essen, Germany).

G.E. Berner & B. Phillips (2003). Left to their own Devices? Community Self-help between Alternative Development and Neoliberalism (Paper presented at the Conference organized by N-AERUS on 'Beyond the neoliberal consensus on urban development: Other voices from Europe and the South', Paris, 15-17 May 2003).

G.E. Berner (2002). Left to Their Own Devices: Chances and Shortcomings of Self-help Approaches to Tackling Housing Poverty (Paper presented at the ISS 50th Anniversary Conference on 'Globalization, Conflict and Poverty', The Hague, 7-9 October 2002).

G.E. Berner (2001). Informal Developers, Patrons, and the State: Institutions and Regulatory Mechanisms in Popular Housing Workshop (Paper presented at the Conference organized by ESF/N-AERUS, Leuven, 23-26 May 2001).

G.E. Berner (2000). Land and Housing in Megacities: Market Failures and Innovative Policies (Paper presented at the Workshop organized by ESF/N-AERUS and UNRISD, Geneva, 3-6 May 2000).

G.E. Berner (2000). Global Citadels: Inequality and Exclusion in Globalizing Cities (Paper presented at the Congress organized by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Petersburg, 27-30 September 2000).

G.E. Berner (1999). World Marketplaces and Citadels: Globalization and Social Exclusion in Cebu City, The Philippines (Paper presented at the 9th EADI Conference on Europe and the South in the 21st Century: Challenges for Renewed Cooperation, 22-25 September 1999).

G.E. Berner (1998). Social Structure and Human Agency: An Introduction.

G.E. Berner (1996). Opportunities and Insecurities: Globalization, Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Manila. (Paper presented at EADI General Conference 'Globalization, Competitiveness and Human Security', Vienna, September 11-13).

G.E. Berner (1996). The Metropolitan Dilemma: Global Society, Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Manila. ( Paper presented at the Fifth International Philippine Studies Conference, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, April 14-16).

G.E. Berner (1995). Globalization and Local Struggles for Urban Land. (Paper presented at the symposion on Urban Studies, San Carlos University, Cebu City, September 11).

G.E. Berner (1995). The Metropolitan Dilemma: Global Society, Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Manila. (Paper presented at the EIDOS-Conference: 'Globalisation and (De-)Civilisation', Wageningen, December 14-16).